Low-Power Control and System Performance Research for Magnetic Flywheel

Abstract

The magnetic flywheel is widely used in energy storage and spacecraft, and it needs to reduce the system’s power consumption effectively when designing the controller. Always, the magnetic bearing system’s performance depends on the tracking performance of the desired force signal. In order to balance the two goals between reducing magnetic system’s power consumption and guaranteeing its performance, a current power allocation way was proposed, and a static current optimization was given based on the way. According to the simulation and experimental results, this method can reduce the magnetic bearing system’s power consumption significantly and keep the tracking performance of force signal well on the same time.